EDMOND, Okla. (KFOR) – He’s walked the crooked paths of his earliest memories many times. “Specific people are tied to specific locations,” he says while walking a park path in Edmond, Okla. But it’s ...

JUÁREZ, Mexico — Irma García López looked out over the Rio Grande towards the border fence that separates the United States from Mexico and separates her from her daughter. She had hoped to have ...

Everything Sad Is Untrue (A true story) by Daniel Nayeri; Levine Querido, 352 pages ($17.99) Age 10 and up. In this brilliant novel, Daniel Nayeri offers a fictionalized memoir of his childhood as an ...

After the great battle over the ring of power, the hobbit Samwise Gamgee is recovering in a friend’s home. He is injured but will survive. The last he knew, the wizard Gandalf had fallen into an abyss ...

Marked by a distinctive voice—a straightforward mix of confiding, slyly humorous, and unsentimentally sorrowful—Nayeri’s (Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow) impressive autobiographical novel ...

In his autobiographical middle-grade novel Everything Sad Is Untrue (Levine Querido), Nayeri, who is also publisher of Macmillan’s Odd Dot imprint, writes about being a young refugee from Iran. He ...

All right. We know you readers love NPR's Book Concierge. It's got this cool way to sort by topics. You get to click on these gorgeous covers, all to find the best books from 2020. Well, one of my ...